Cristina Mastrandrea, freelance Photojournalist &amp; Documentary photographer.
She was born in Ivrea (Turin) , after graduating in Political Science in Turin with a major in Sociology of Communication, she graduated at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata (ISFCI) in Rome,
She collaborates for video reportage and correspondences with RAINews24.
Her reportage have been published on some of the most important italian and international magazine like L'Espresso, La Repubblica, Il Manifesto , Left , GIOIA Hearst, Grazia, Jesus Periodici San Paolo, Vanity Fair, D di Repubblica, Le Matin, Huffington Post UK, Donna Moderna ,GRAZIA.
Between 2011 and 2012 documented the economic crisis and the working conditions in Italy. His interest, however, aimed primarily at the Middle East and North Africa, with a special attention to women.
In 2013 begins to document women in Tunisia after the revolution; here knows Amina Tyler (Sboui), the Tunisian girl who posted her topless photos on Facebook to protest against Islamic morality.
She was the first one to photograph Amina, not yet known by the media and to interviewed her exclusively for RAI NEWS24. This work had 3 honorable mentions IPA (International Photography Awards 2013).
In 2014 she has started a new video and photo project "Victimas" on indigenous and migrant women detained in jail in San Cristobal de Las Casas (Chiapas-Mexico).
She went back in Tunisia on October 2014 and through mother’s voices, she reported with photo and video the phenomenon of young Tunisians fighters enrolled on ISIS.In 2015 she made a reportage regarding young cubans in the era of changes and new technologies.Her last reportage was published on L'Espresso, "We, the Invisible Children of Rome Central Station", while the video documentary realized with the journalist Floriana Bulfon, directed by Toni Trupia and Mario Poetapromoted by Unicef Italia aimed to document the harsh living conditions of unaccompanied foreign minor

A moving story—told in words, pictures and video—of the illegal, migrant youth living around Rome’s central train station. Although they came to Europe for a new beginning, they find themselves being preyed upon and taken advantage of with little recourse for help.